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“She has a lot of courage. And as Margo gets older she has a lot more confidence in herself.”

Margo’s journey this series has been a coming-of-age tale – after trying to ease her boredom by taking up soap-sculpting, Margo has landed a job she’s good at, as an X-ray technician and part-time nanny, and is on her journey to becoming a woman, despite being only 17.

Playing her is no hardship to 23-year-old Daisy. “I’d say I’m a young 23 at heart, so in my brain I’m the same age as Margo,” she quips.

“It’s quite comforting knowing I can be silly and young for longer.”

Daisy got her start in high-profile TV projects – Silent Witness (2014), Testament Of Youth (2014), the Agatha Christie TV thriller And Then There Were None (2015) and Cyberbully (2015), before landing the role of Margo.

Yet despite The Durrells making her face more familiar, Londoner Daisy says that she still doesn’t get recognised much in her home town, away from the Corfu set and her 1930s hairstyle and outfits.

“If I do get recognised it’s normally on the Tube, probably because I’m looking angsty and grumpy – which is why people think, ‘That must be Margo!’

“I mean, I find it so flattering and I have no idea why I’m worthy of it. I also find it quite nerve-wracking.”

On set, Daisy and her young co-stars are guided by their screen mum, Keeley Hawes, the acclaimed star of Spooks and Line Of Duty.

Daisy says that when the cameras are switched off, Keeley remains a strong presence on set. “She is just so great and a really wonderful talented woman with so much spunk,” says Daisy.

“I find her very inspirational. She’s smart and she’s made of steel, in the best way.

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Daisy reckons that most people recognise her from her grumpy looks

“She’s never patronising to us, but she really comforts and looks after us. So if you’re feeling down, she’ll pick you up and hold your hand. She’s naturally a maternal woman with a good heart.”

On screen, Louisa often struggles to cope with her children’s independent spirits. Her only daughter, Margo, is quite liberated for the period.

“Margo’s a true feminist, open with her sexuality and emotions, and always pining after someone,” says Daisy of Margo, who’s currently in a relationship with young Zoltan (Merch Husey).

This week Daisy faces a new challenge on her journey to womanhood, when her teenage insecurities are ignited by the arrival on Corfu of a new Italian family, the Ferraris.

“One of them is a girl called Clara [Antonia Desplat], who is beautiful,” explains Daisy.

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Daisy reveals that Keeley Hawes is a strong presence even out of character

“Margo sees her and goes, ‘Why don’t I look like that? Why aren’t I perfect?’ which is great, because every single person in the world feels like that at some time. Margo’s not old enough to realise that everyone’s perfect how they are, so she spends lots of time worrying and wishing for perfection.”

In her quest for personal transformation, Margo even goes to a religious shrine with housekeeper Lugaretzia (Anna Savva) – there, worshippers queue up to kiss the slipper-clad feet of a mummified saint in order to be granted wishes they’ve prayed for.

Daisy explains enthusiastically that although much of The Durrells is a fictionalised version of Gerald Durrell’s famous memoirs, this event actually happened. In the book My Family And Other Animals, Louisa, Margo and Gerry attended the Church of St Spyridon to kiss the saint’s velvet-slippered feet.

Gerald writes that Louisa warned Margo not to actually kiss the germy footwear, but to air-kiss it instead.

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A visit to the Church of St Spyridon is apparently a true Durrells family exploit

“But it was too late,” wrote Gerald Durrell of Margo.

“There she was, crouched over the slippered feet, kissing them with an enthusiasm that enchanted and greatly surprised the crowd.”

Needless to say, after kissing the unhygienic relic, Margo pays a price for her enthusiastic show of devotion. Daisy says that filming the scene had a powerful effect on her.

“That was my favourite storyline,” she says. “I found it very moving when we were filming it, because this actually happened. I really felt Margo’s presence with me that day.”